The Men Who Went South

The men who went to the front in defense of the Union ; those who enrolled
in the militia for defense of the city, and for emergency duty in the city
and and county and along the railroads and other avenues of approach; and
those capable of defending their homes, but exempt from military service,
are matters of official records, some of which have been published in books
that treat of those troublous times. Not so with the hundreds of
men who went from St. Louis and made their way to the Confederate armv.
With the aid of Captain Joseph Boyce, a Confederate veteran who lives in
St. Louis, residents of Clayton, Mrs. Wageley, of Olcott Station, and several
others, nearly all reprentative of pioneer settlers, we have succeeded
in rescuing from oblivion a few names and incidents concerning the
men who went south. The number will never be known with definiteness.
A number of infantry and artillery organizations were made up almost entirely
of St. Louis city and county men, and many more were attached to
regiments composed of soldiers from all parts of the South. Colonel
Bowen, of Camp Jackson memory, had a regiment of St. Louisians in Memphis
in the summer of 1861. It is estimated that the Southern army contained
at least
5,000 men who went to it from this locality. Guibor's, Barrett's,
Wade's, and, possibly, Lesneur's batteries were manned mostly by St. Louis
and St. Louis county volunteers. Of 114 who had belonged to the St.
Louis Grays, ten got back to St. Louis. This was Captain Boyce's company,
of Bowen's First Missouri Regiment. The St. Louis contingent appears
to have made up in quality what it lacked in quantity, but quantity is
usually a very influential factor in a scrap, as you may have learned by
personal experience, and bullets are no respectors of persons-they
are great levelers-and doctors and truck-gardeners; lawyers and divinity
students and section men and teamsters and men of all classes; Irish and
"Dutch" and French and Negro and American; aristocratic humanity and plebeian
flesh and blood; look alike to men who are facing each other behind antagonistic
guns. Martial law had been declared very early in 1861 and those
men who left the county had to go with the utmost secrecy as to their methods
of eluding the eyes and guns of the home guards, who paced the banks of
the Missouri river; watched the Meramec in the vicinity of "Rebel Bend"
(now called Crescent); or guarded the Franklin county line. In another
place is given the names of some of those who did this duty. Under
the reign of martial law, a passport containing a pledge of loyalty to
the Union was necessary to men who wished to leave St. Louis. Eighty-five
thousand of these passes were issued in three months in 1861. The following
list may give some names of residents of the county who "went South," but
did not go from these parts. In such cases, note is made of the fact. Among
those whose identification with the county and with Confederate army life
is believed to be indisputable are:

Note: Names not in strict alphabetical order.

Samuel Adie.

Dr. Harrison.

W. B. Moss.

George Anderson.

Dave Hartshorn.

Richard Miller

F.M. Anderson.

Robert Hardy.

John J. Miller.

Le Grand Atwood.

Fred Hall.

William T. McCutchan.

R. L. Bohler.

L. F. HaIl.

Hugh Matthews

Ed. Bohler.

James Hall.

George Penn.

Frank Brooks.

Charles Hall.

Charles Price.

Harry Brooks.

John Harbeson

John H. Pipkin.

George M. Bowles.

Alton Harbeson

John Parks.

Lee Boone.

William Harwood.

William Phelps.

Charles R. Black.

Ottawa Harwood.

John Phelps.

Sellars Busby.

Robert Harwood.

"Thrip" Reavis.

Samuel Brown.

H. Humphreys.

Rufus Ricketts.

Oscar P. Baldwin.

James 0. Huckstep.

William Smizer.

John Bailey.

John W. Huckstep.

George Smizer.

R. E. Bolton.

William Huckstep.

Dave Sappington.

H. L. Bolton.

James Henderson.

Mark Sappington.

Martin Burke.

Mose Henderson.

Joe Sappington.

William Bamberg.

John Jones.

George Sappington.

R. G. Coleman.

Jesse Joplin.

James Shotwell.

Richard Caulk

John R. James.

Tom Snyder.

Isaac Chambers.

William Kieth.

Lawrence Stewart.

Trimble Craig.

William Kern

Marion Story.

William D. Clayton.

Alexander Lewis.

Josiah Tippett.

Steve Coleman.

John Lewis.

George Taylor.

A. C. Cordell.

Fletcher Lewis.

Theodore Tesson.

William Duvall.

Alton Long.

Philip H. Thomas.

James Doss.

Joe Lackey.

William E. Tyler.

John Davis.

George Little.

J. M. Utz.

William Davenport.

Lafe Little.

Fred Underwood.

James Davenport.

Gabriel Long.

John Vandiver.

John Driscoll.

William Long

Caleb Vandiver.

Tim Dwyer.

Jacob Lash.

Will Van Nort.

A. J. Denny.

Reid McKnight.

Jack Wilson.

William Doss.

James McKnight.

Hunt P. Wilson.

J. R. Frazier.

Jack Martin.

Dick Woodson.

John George

George Mook.

Charles B. West.

Gurdon Gilmore.

John T. Moss.

The foregoing were residents of and went from St. Louis county proper,
from homes then located in what we call the "new" county. From within the
limits now included in the Imits of St. Louis, went:

M. K. McGrath.

George Mook.

R. H. Stockton.

Henry Perks.

Captain Joseph Boyce

Daniel Noonan.

Captain Henry Guibor.

Dennis O'Brien.

Samuel M. Kennard.

Dan. C. Kennedy.

Dr. John A. Leavy.

William P. Barlow.

Samuel Hager.

And a great many more.

A. F. Pack.

St. Louis Residents Carried Contraband at Great Peril
For Southern Cause

There were other men who went South and came back an indefinite number
of times. They carried information and quinine and prohibited freight in
small quantities and at great peril. One of these was Captain Absalom Grimes.
And still others went South with the full knowledge and assistance of the
government, making the journey on one of the palatial steamboats of the
period. We have been told of a group of about thirty of these people-men
and women who made the trip to a point above Memphis, ultimately
reaching a point called Pontotoc, Mrississippi, where they found themselves
among their Southern friends. They were "aiders and abettors" and
had been banished. Some of them carried mail and 'contraband" articles.
One of the men was named Pullis and there was a Sappington and possibly
a Goodfellow in the party of exiles. Apprehending a search of their
effects one of them, a lady, took the precaution to copy sundry letters
on the slats of the state-room bed, was searched with equanimity and after
that ordeal had been passed re-copied her dangerous documents and
carried them to their addresses. A member of this group is a lady now living
in St. Louis. She is now seventy-seven years old, her place of residence
is on Fairmount avenue, St. Louis, and her name is Miss Harriet Snodgrass.
Her parents came to this locality from McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Her sister
married John Goodfellow of St. Louis county. Before the war ended this
lady succeeded in getting to Washington city where her banishment papers
were revoked and she returned to St. Louis. Since the war she has
lived for many years on a plantation near Texarkana, but now makes her
home in St Louis.

St. Louis Confederate Soldier Saved Unarmed Union Soldiers

"Dad" Bremner is now living in the Confederate
Home at Higginsville, Missouri. His name is William S. Bremner. The Hancock
School (Carondelet township) has written about him in the "Watchman-Advocate"
(Clayton, January 11, 1911), which says:

"Dad" has carried his United States flag in front of the Hancock
School children at the school picnics for many years. The flag mentioned
was given to him by the Sons of Veterans [Union veterans] of Evansville,
Ind. as a token of their appreciation of "Dad"'s generous conduct
in protecting unarmed Union soldiers, swimming for their lives. It is reported
that he jumped in front of his victory-flushed comrades and kept them from
shooting their swimming enemies. 'Dad' was the only Confederate out
of a large family. Like most of his brave comrades, he is thoroughly reconstructed
and is a loyal citizen of the United States. He will he seventy-two years
on March 2, 1911."

Confederate Reunions at Creve Coeur Park

It was a habit of many
people in the county and city of St. Louis fifteen to twenty years ago,
to have an annual picnic, usually at Studt's Park, Upper Creve Coeur lake,
for the benefit of the ex-Confederate Home at Higginsville, Missouri. Among
the last of these reunions was one in which it was estimated that there
were between 3,000 and 4,000 people on the grounds. The Daughters
of the Confederacy were present in a body. Among those who espoused the
cause of the South, many, if not most, of whom were natives of St. Louis
county were: